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Lost opportunities: purchasing strategies in housing and support for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- RYAN Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 1(9), May 1998, pp.296-299.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
For people with learning difficulties who have complex or challenging needs, institutional or residential care is often seen as the only option, on grounds of both cost and suitability. Reports on new research which challenges these assumptions, and describes examples of good practice where purchasers have developed alternative, more flexible and less costly services to support people in their own homes. Research shows that strategies which foster independence produce savings in the long-term.
Relative values
- Author:
- RYAN Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.5.98, 1998, p.22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that even for people with the most challenging needs, community care can be both happier and cheaper.
The cost of opportunity: purchasing strategies in the housing and support arrangements of people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- RYAN Tony
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 88p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report drawing on a number of examples of housing and support arrangements to show that people with learning difficulties, including those with complex needs, can be supported in their own homes, resulting in more cost effective and desirable housing and support for all.